Noida: Ahead of World Environment Day, the Gautam Budh Nagar woods division has initiated measures to safeguard the water body as well as its own peripheral Sarus habitat in Dhanauri wetland.
The woods office also has acquired the Union forests and environment ministry to make global NGO World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-India to map the Dhanauri wetland and receive it recorded under the Ramsar Convention.
Though the district forest division is processing files to find the center waterbody in Dhanauri recorded beneath the Wetland (Conservation and Management) Act, 2017, WWF-India is participated at the documentation work to its Ramsar tag.
WWF is the Indian government’s focal NGO for the Ramsar Convention.
“We’ve collated a great deal of information on Dhanauri.
To find the wetland recognized as a Ramsar site, one wants to fill an extremely detailed information sheet containing the region of the area, good mapping and visual proof.
We’ve made considerable improvement and will now begin the mapping job,” said Suresh Babu, ” the manager of both rivers and wetlands in WWF-India.
“Our findings will be submitted to the district forest office, which will forward it to the state government of Uttar Pradesh and also the latter will forward into the Union environment and forests ministry.
The ministry will then place this up to your Ramsar postage,” he added.
In a period of 48km in Noida, Dhanauri wetlands, also a 101-hectare marshland at Greater Noida, missed the Ramsar nomination at January 2020 for insufficient documentation.
Dhanauri is situated at a 26-km space out of Jewar, the destination to the approaching airport.
At a census reasoned from the forest department in September 2020, it had been shown that the wetland had 84 Sarus cranes, for example 16 chicks.
“The waterbody will have official recognition for a wetland and after all documentation is done, the information sheet for Ramsar list will be processed too,” explained PK Srivastava, district forest officer.
India now has 42 wetlands recognized as Ramsar sites.
The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017, includes special instructions for’wise use’ of wetlands and recognized wetlands are tracked for rule-infringements.